Health News of the Day

Health News of the Day is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day:

24 risk factors responsible for nearly half of annual deaths, says the WHO. 57% of cardiovascular deaths can be traced back to 3 risk factors—high blood pressure, high BMI, physical inactivity http://bit.ly/7Nujn

Time for a moratorium on vitamin D meta-analyses? http://bit.ly/zWrx4

Warnings about the validity of the oral glucose tolerance test in BMJ http://bit.ly/16IGha

"Doctor who focuses on the disease in the person, rather than the person in the disease" - BMJ http://bit.ly/a2uJJ

On-the-job exercise good for employee and employer: decreases cholesterol and job stress, improves attendance http://bit.ly/2tQaE2

Language of Smiles: When it comes to mood adjustment, is it possible that putting on a happy face might actually work? http://bit.ly/YEjpt

CNN: Bystander or Genovese syndrome http://bit.ly/48vF2A - Terrible.

Medical news tweets are not research articles - they are 140-character messages - please always go to the original source, links, etc. Tweets and links do not represent endorsement, approval or support. Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.

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